Pale Blue Button

Be more green and save energy by getting notifications every time you leave your computer idle for too long.
What is Pale Blue Button?
Pale Blue Button is a Chrome extension that helps you save energy and be green by sending notifications every time your computer is left idle for too long.

Extension stats

Users: 60 ▼ -10
Rating: 4.11 (9)
Version: 7 (Last updated: 2014-09-21)
Creation date: 2014-09-20
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • idle
Size: 19.72K

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Extension summary

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Be more green and train yourself to save energy by not leaving the computer idle.

When the computer spends more than 10 minutes idle, the blue button changes to a red button with a small text showing the number minutes without any use.

After a sign of activity the notification stays for 10 seconds and the button returns to its original blue state.

If you leave the computer running and return a few minutes later, the icon will tell you how many minutes of energy were wasted, making you feel filthy and guilty... hopefully encouraging you to sleep the computer the next time, and the next time, until it becomes a habit.

Note: Chrome stopped supporting the technology that allowed the extension to suspend or send the computer to sleep mode directly from the browser, so that feature won't be available from now on (Sep. 2014).

Other works http://imagentleman.github.io

User reviews

Works quite smooth: by clicking on the button the system goes immediately in sleep mode

esta buena
by Matias Gonzalez, 2013-07-25

Excelente
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Pale Blue Button does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Pale Blue Button has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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